about be the future
hi, i'm josh! I founded Future Emergent, a consulting firm that works with nonprofits and government agencies. Drop me a line if you'd like to work together on something.
I use principles of racial equity and social justice in everything I do to make changes that last. I center communities that have long faced systemic oppression. I draw from my own experiences navigating these unjust systems. My goal isn't to help others find their way through this maze. I'd rather work alongside them to knock down the walls that box us in.
This is my blog/laboratory be the future. Here, i write about my ideas to challenge, disrupt, or replace the status quo. My essays cover topics like power, equity, food justice, and leadership. I've also written about cooperatives, targeted universalism, and so much more. Here's a list of some of the many tags I use.
These are some of my favorite blog posts.
Be the future began by necessity. A career in nonprofits and government had gotten me used to people above me saying no to transformative ideas. Be the future became the answer to the question, “What if they said yes?” This blog serves as one of my laboratories for new ideas. I’ve experimented here since 2019.
My words have made it into official government documents. A blog post became my talking points for a TV interview about food insecurity. Be the future even helped me build the confidence to start my own consulting company, Future Emergent.
Each week, I try to understand ideas and viewpoints that inspire me. I draw from a network of perspectives that inform my own. I critique mainstream or status quo thinking and urge people to move beyond those ideas.
I publish a new post every Friday and distribute it by newsletter. I share it on social media the following Monday. I also narrate posts for a podcast that goes out infrequently for now.
I live and work on the unceded territories of Coast Salish people who have lived here since time immemorial. I’m on the land of the dxʷdəwʔabš or Duwamish nation. I pay rent to acknowledge this theft of their sovereign land. Wherever you are, I encourage you to learn more about the land you’re on and its history. To learn more about Indigenous nations in some parts of the world, you can visit Native Land. Don’t end your journey at learning, though! In all that we do, we must strive to build respect and cooperation with the Indigenous nations that share the land with us to this day
Get in touch: josh@bethefuture.space
